The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-19
THE LEVEE TO BIZ BUILT.
TIE HINDMAN FERRY APPRO-
PRIATlON PASSES
The County Court by q Vote Of IS
to ia Hot
Fight.
SYNOPSIS OF TIE ARGUMENTS
PRO AND CON.
]. M. Harris Pays His Respects TO
Mr.. Bond and the
Appeal.
CHARGES AGAINST JUSTICE
HUGHES TO BEINVESIIGATED. ,
Bridge Commissioner Cole Submits
His Report In Retaliation Of
False Statements.
CHARGES AGAINST JUSTICE
HUGHES TO BE INVESTIGATED.

The County Court continued III
quarterly session yesterday morning
wi b more than average attendance
From the earnest look on the faces oil
the members, it was evident they were
looking for something, and meant bust
ness when they found it. The august
body was proceeding with routine
business when suddenly Mr.. James
NJ. Harris doomed up in their midst
and asked for hearing. Permission
was given, and the gentleman said:
Gentlemen, my object in address.
ing you is to call your attention to a
most slsnderous article in the dsily
Memphis APPEAL of Satard ly. the 10th
instant, in which a member of your
worshipful body ustice Hughes, oil
the Eighth Distri ct-is made the sab
jeCt of an unwarranted aud malicious
attack through the medium of an al
legged interview with Mr.. Bond. The
APPEAL newspaper has for number
Of years endeavored to dictate the pol
icy to be pursued by the County
Court, resortiDg to abuse when the
body has refused to be coerced. So
long as the APPEAL confined its vile at
tacks and aspersions to the court as q
body, you could stand them and az.
ford to treat them with
the unutterable contempt OF 81.
lence they deserved, but when news.
paper makes libellous charges against
an individual membsr, then it be-
hooves that member and you, his col.
leagues, to demand an investigation of
those charges, which in this instance
will prove ia SO and without the slight
est foundation" Mr.. Harris then
read from an APPEAL of the 10th an
article based on an interview with Mr..
Bond, of Brunswick, who made specific
charges against Justice Hughes oil
ueing his official p osition to get appro-
p,iations from the County Court TO be
applied to the individual benefit OF
himself and his friends. After reading
the article Mr.. Harris denounced it in
strong and unmistakable language as
baseless fabrication and an unmiti-
gated SANDER, winding up with the as
sertion tt at mo paper pretending to
decency should be allowed to afsai!
the fair fame of citizen without more
warrant than an interview with man
that no one knowsI and no one in
dorses." He then asked that a COM
mittee Of two magistrates and three
reputable citizens outside of the
Eighth District be appointed to thor
oughly investigate the charges against
Justice Hughes.
A brief discussion followed, after
which Justices W. II. Hughey and A.
R.: Pope, OF the court, and Messis
John 0vertop, IT,, s. Fl. Dunscomb
and DR.. d. L. Porter, as citizens, were
appointed as committee 10 investi-
gate the matter thoroughly and report
At the July term Of court.
Juttice Hughes afterward stated
thst be simply wanted his character
cleared, and his attorney pronounced
the assertions of Mr.. Boz the vapor-
ings OF man, indorsed by no one
who knows him.
County Court Clerk Qligley was al
lowed $505 for countersigning a1d
Sc aliIg county warrants.
The assessment of the Ledger news
paper property was reduced from
$4,000 to $1,000, after which a re cess for
one hour was taken.